Yesterday evening, Solange was the number three trending topic on Twitter. For cutting her hair.

The Daily Fail accused Solange of "doing a Britney," even thought Britney shaved her head right down to the scalp and Solange has a close-cropped, natural haircut.

The piece by Donna mcConnell read:

[Solange] once playfully said she would 'go crazy like Britney' if people kept comparing her to her sister.

And it seems she might finally have flipped as she hit the streets of Los Angeles in a new shorn hairstyle yesterday.

A Daily Fail commenter added: "She is trying to copy the newest black icon Amber Rose… I think she looks terrible."

A reporter for MTV News wrote: "The motive is still unclear, but considering how gorgeous her mane was, it's not a great style choice."

On trashy site The Hollywood Gossip, Solange's decision to crop her 'do was called "batshit insane."

So. It's not "batshit insane" for a black woman to wear a flesh-eating lace-front wig, or to glue a weave to her head, or to process her hair to be unnaturally silky and straight. But it is crazy for her to cut it off? Got it.

As for Solange, her Twitter reads:

listen. if. i. wanted. to. make. a. statement. i. would. have. twitpic'd. photo shoot. ect. i. was. simply. taking. my. son. to. school.

stupid. paps. took. pic. ive. had. my. hair. cut. like. this. for. two. weeks. i. was. NOT. inspired. by anyone. but. my. self.

i. have. done. this. twice. in. my. life. i. was 16. i was 18. did. not care about your opinion. then. dont. care. now.

dont. need. your. attention. or. your. co-sign. i am #3. trending topic. before. IRAN. &. some of you cant even locate it on a map. its sad.

dont. want. a. edge. up. or a perm. because. im not trying. to make this "a style" or a statement.

i. just. wanted. to. be. free. from. the. bondage. that. black. women sometimes. put. on. themselves. with. hair.

this. phase. of. my. life. i. want to spend . the time. the energy. and the money. on something else. not in the hair salon.

ONLY reason i responded to this i have is because i was disappointed to see my name more talked about than #iranelection

we. gotta. do. better. people.

Word.

Solange Shaves Her Head [JustJared]
Beyonce's Solange Knowles Does A Britney... As She Shaves Off Her Locks [Daily Mail]
Solange Has A New Haircut And Underrated Videos [MTV News]
Solange's New Bald Haircut: Hot or Not? [The Hollywood Gossip]
Solange Knowles [Twitter]

Seems Agyness Deyn's signature platinum crop, "the Aggy," has spawned a "Rachel"-scale wave of imitators, including famous daughters Kimberly Stewart and Pixie Geldof. Somewhere on Melrose Place, Josie Bissett is laughing. [Daily Mail]

As a curly girl myself, I agree with the content of this letter — although I am not at all surprised that a makeover means straight hair. We're living in a day and age where curly hair is like an STD: It's best to get rid of it as soon as possible and pretend you never had it.

Witness: Mariah then; Mariah now. Nicole Kidman then; Nicole Kidman now. Jennifer Lopez then; Jennifer Lopez now. Beyoncé then; Beyoncé now. Even new singer Leona Lewis lost her tight curls in order to "make it." I could go on. Not to mention movies like The Princess Diaries, in which the heroine goes from an ugly dork to a pretty girl by (ta-dah!) getting a blow out. It's great to try a new look, and we all know the feeling of wanting something you don't have. (I'd be lying if I said I didn't go straight every now and then.) But the subtext is that curly hair is somehow "wrong" and in need of "fixing," like a crooked smile, ill-fitting wardrobe or something else you'd "make over." Worse, I suspect there is an underlying racism in the aversion to curly hair. It's often described as "wild" and "untamed" which basically means "savage" and isn't that just a polite way of saying "black people have it" ?

In any case, curly hair is nothing to be ashamed of. Obviously. In the words of Breyer and Heber: "We are proud to espouse the message that curly hair, like eye and skin color, is always in style and is something that one needn't change in order to 'fit in.' After all, curlies make up more than 50% of the world's population - we need to rock our curls!" It would be great if the world accepted curly hair, but if Oprah can't, what chance do we have?

An Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey From NaturallyCurly.com [PR Newswire]
Related: NaturallyCurly.com

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